The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece- now in a new editionA triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author's death in 1771....
We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins...
The Bible is the bestselling book in history, and the New International Version (NIV) Bible is the bestselling version year after year.This bestselling modern English Bible has sol...
SUMMARY: Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman ...
From Publishers WeeklyThis new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim ...
From Publishers WeeklyOld Havana mambos on the brink of the abyss in this chronicle of Cuba in the decades before the 1959 revolution. True-crime writer English (Paddy Whacked) pr....
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,...
SUMMARY: During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find hi...
Review"Superb."--Professor James Chastain, Ohio University"This is far and away the best English translation of Germinal currently available. The translator has captured th...
English Passengers (2000) A novel by Matthew Kneale Awards: Whitbread Prize The Booker Prize (nominee) This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who ...